Colette Billaud

EDUCATION

1985-1987
L.E.M, Laboratory of Movement Studies at the Jacques LECOQ School, PARIS, France

1978-1979
KINGSTON-POLYTECHNIC OF ART LONDON, United Kingdom

1972-1978
DNSEP, Art department at Beaux-Arts Angers, France
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"The human body has been my main interest, I expressed it through drawing, modeling, photography, then the body as actor/tool, in performances in London, Angers and Paris from 1978 to 1987.

Afterwards, I enrolled in the LEM, Laboratoire d'Etudes sur le Mouvement at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and these two years of experimentation determined my artistic research based on structures that became the extension of the body in movement in space.

Since then, I question the balance on the ground, in suspension and on the wall, I draw and play with the void, the air, the transparency, the shadow and the light. The dynamic relationship of the materials of my structures induces movement, creating a silent or sound space.

The creation of large structure allows me to imagine the possibility of creating new pieces on the scale of large private or public spaces."